Once connected, your AI assistant can read and write content across your Coda docs by using the many tools the MCP offers. Here are a few tips for working with MCP tools:
📝 Most useful prompts chain a few tools together.
You might search for a doc, read its tables, add some rows, then add a page with a summary of your work and references to the original page.
👉 Knowing what each tool does helps you ask for the right things.
You can see the Key parameters column below to understand how a tool might be used and what kind of context can help make it more accurate. For example, the page_read tool provides access to comments on a page, which is very useful when responding to feedback on a writeup.
⚠️ Tool names and parameters are subject to change and should not be used directly in Code
Especially while the MCP is in beta, we expect to make changes to make our tools more ergonomic for AI assistants. This may mean that tools can get renamed, removed, or added. If you are building your own agents, it is advised against using tool names directly, as your agent may stop working if a breaking change is made to this toolset. Instead, let your agent dynamically read the tool description using listTools and call tools by dynamically constructing tool calls with callTools